The third Sam Phillips album is an amazing tour de force with one clear influence: The Beatles - although mostly John and George with Paul focusing on inventive bass lines. However, Sam’s lyrics are better than most Beatles’ songs, with a clearer world view advocating love and honesty with one’s self over the materialist, soul-corroding trappings of modern society.

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The final ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica “evar” will start airing in 2009. The first episode is scheduled for January 16. Needless to say I’ll be there, and dedicating a post to each episode.

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Synopsis

River wanders around Serenity, and we hear things from her point of view. She reads the minds of the various crew members, eventually reaching the ship’s lower deck where she picks up a branch - which is actually a gun. Mal disarms her, and scolds Simon for failing to keep an eye on his sister.

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Trism is a puzzle game for the iPhone that falls into that simple to learn, lifetime to master category. Just use your finger to slide rows and columns of triangles to match their colors. When a match of three triangles or more is made, the triangles disappear, and the remaining triangles fall to fill the holes created, in the direction your iPhone is titled.

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So Joost had a video website that seems to have fallen by the wayside what with Hulu and other options. Now they may have found an alternate method to get people to install their app through an iPhone app that basically does the same thing as the Joost desktop client - streaming video content to the iPhone.

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Thirty-something Londoner Georgina is told she has “one egg left” sending her on a hurried quest to get pregnant ASAP. Hilarity ensues.

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After a few weeks of pain, there is a winner to the second So Bad It’s Good movie contest where I watched terrible movies that become entertaining in their badness. This time out, the entries were Brain Of Blood, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and Stray Dogs.

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English professor Lawrence (Dennis Quaid) may be intellectually brilliant, but he’s sadly incompetent in essentially everything else. His sarcastic daughter Vanessa (Ellen Page) and layabout brother Chuck (Thomas Haden Chuch) are no help either. His former student Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker) may cut through the pretension.

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XBMC is another program installed on the Apple TV using ATV USB Creator. XBMC is basically an open source media center application for a number of platforms.

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Betty and the kids relax in the backyard as their neighbor releases pigeons from a cage. That evening at a theater, Jim Hobart, a rival ad agency agency executive, tries to recruit Don. He compares Betty to Grace Kelly and offers her a job modeling for Coca-Cola.

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